LEADER 04561nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910955207003321 005 20080811161613.0 010 $a9798400649011 010 $a9786612333781 010 $a9781282333789 010 $a128233378X 010 $a9780313365287 010 $a0313365288 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400649011 035 $a(CKB)1000000000799491 035 $a(EBL)495208 035 $a(OCoLC)667001941 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000295951 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11253800 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295951 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10320882 035 $a(PQKB)10805340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL495208 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10342108 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL233378 035 $a(OCoLC)1418755625 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400649011BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC495208 035 $a(Perlego)4168943 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000799491 100 $a20080729e20082024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExperimenting with the consumer $ethe mass testing of risky products on the American public /$fMarshall S. Shapo 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger Publishers,$d2008. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 225 1 $aNon-Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9798216082439 311 08$a9780313365294 311 08$a0313365296 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aExperimentation : a survey at trench level -- HIV/AIDS drugs : speeding up science, under political pressure -- Breast implants : a parable of law's response to improvements on nature -- Treating thyself-for men only : viagra -- Estrogens : a gathering of data, a gathering storm -- Estrogens, the storm breaks : a struggle of medicine, law, and politics -- Experiments at the billionth level : nanotechnology. 330 8 $aExperimenting With The Consumer exposes the hazards of the mass-market experimentation in which every American consumer and worker is unwittingly tapped for product risk data by manufacturers, scientists, and regulators. Vioxx, Heparin, Avandia, Paxil, fen-phen, estrogens, silicone implants, pacemakers, formaldehyde in FEMA trailers, 60 buckyballs in coatings ... the headlines are increasingly filled with hidden risks coming to light in popular products years after federal agencies approve them for the American public. Shapo shows readers how to get past unreasonable trust or fear and make the best risk-management choices for themselves and their families. He walks them through what questions to ask before consenting to be in a clinical trial; how to evaluate the implied bold-print claims against the small-print disclosures in advertisements for medical products; how to uncover product and environmental risks in their homes, workplaces, supermarkets, and neighborhoods; how to assess and control product risk while maximizing consumer choice and benefit; how to pressure government to tighten consumer protection; and how to seek legal redress. Through a diverse selection of dramatic case studies, Shapo lays bare the incentives of companies and entrepreneurial scientists to fake or obscure experimental data before and after government approval; the fights between interested and disinterested scientists over data; the fights between scientists and doctors over patient rights; the campaigns of activists against government agencies to release experimental drugs; the impact of the journalistic and promotional media on public knowledge and perception of product risk; and the marketing tricks that manufacturers use to harness sexual desire to product launches and to shape the prescription choices of physicians. 410 0$aNon-Series 606 $aHuman experimentation in medicine$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aProducts liability$zUnited States 606 $aTechnological innovations$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 615 0$aHuman experimentation in medicine$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aProducts liability 615 0$aTechnological innovations$xLaw and legislation 676 $a346.7303/8 700 $aShapo$b Marshall S.$f1936-$01118812 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955207003321 996 $aExperimenting with the consumer$94332523 997 $aUNINA